This part of our course asks the question: How do we know which theories best explain a psychological disorder and how can this then help to treat that disorder?

Your work is to select a disorder and to research it carefully and evaluate your findings. The clips and articles below should get you started. There are lots more interesting things out there - you will need to do your own research too. Your job is then to write a report based on your findings. You should try to interview a health worker who has experience of working with clients with your selected disorder.

OCD and Anxiety Disorders

Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

Schizophrenia

Treatments for Disorders

Depending on which approaches you have chosen to focus on you will need to research their favoured treatments for the disorder you have selected. It is important to remember that there are MANY different types of counselling and talking therapies and also that increasingly treatments are used in a holistic and inter-related way. There is not necessarily ONE best or right way to treat a person with a particular disorder. The following resources should provide a starting point.

Where else can you go for research?Think of yourself as a detective uncovering clues.This is, after all, a level 3 project. You should not expect to simply be able to visit one site and "collect the answers". You should expect to have to think carefully about what the keywords are to describe the disorder and use a persistent search strategy to provide information that will assist you for all 5 questions.